Shirley Sanborn discusses her career as a GM salaried secretary at the Fisher Body plant in Lansing, MI
Shirley talks about being hired in July 1949 as a material control clerk and being treated badly. She comments on how few women were in the plant mostly working in payroll. Shirley describes her work, the challenges, disparate pay, the Women's Club store and charities, the corporate reorganization to BOC and the animosity between Oldsmobile and Fisher managers. She also comments on the positive effect a UAW contract would have on salaried compensation.
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G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Date
- 2005-11-07
- Interviewees
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Sanborn, Shirley
- Interviewers
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Howard, Doreen
Coulter, Marilyn
McQuaid, Cheryl
Rademacher, Doug
Johnson, Linda
Fedewa, John
- Subjects
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Sanborn, Shirley
General Motors Corporation
Administrative agencies--Reorganization
Collective labor agreements
Diversity in the workplace
Interpersonal relations
Secretaries
Sex discrimination in employment
Michigan--Lansing
- Material Type
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Sound recordings
- Language
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English
- Extent
- 00:41:56
- Venue Note
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Recorded on Nov. 7, 2005 as part of the United Auto Workers Local 602/General Motors Oral History Project.
- Holding Institution
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Vincent Voice Library
- Call Number
- Voice 15561
- Catalog Record
- http://catalog.lib.msu.edu/record=b6795329
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